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The Strafing Run of Mother Nature 4: 2017 Autumn of the Apocalypse

Discuss this article at the Environment Table inside the Diner

I was going to take a break from Hurrican Reporting and devote my next article to another form of storm, the Financial Storm surrounding the breach of the Equifax security of Credit Data and the sprinkling out of SS#s and all the rest of your personal data for nefarious people to use in Identity Theft, for the rest of your LIFE.  I actually got most of this article done already, but then Maria waltzed into town, with a direct bead on the FSoA Virgin Islands and after that Puerto Rico, with the Eyewall targeting the capital city of San Juan.  As if Puerto Rico didn’t have enough problems being totally DEAD BROKE even before Maria came a-knocking.

So now, here I am once again sitting here safely in my digs on the Last Great Frontier of Alaska at 6PM my time while ALL HELL is breaking loose down in the Lower 48, the Carribean and Central America.

Maria has been on a Bee Line for St. Croix in the FSoA Virgin Islands and looks set for the Eyewall to make FIRST CONTACT in the next couple of hours.  It’s a BULL’S EYE direct hit like Irma pulled on Barbuda.  St. Croix will be FLATTENED.

Puerto Rico and the Capital City of San Juan are also on the Navigational Chart of Maria on her journey across the High Seas for a STRAFING RUN there as well.  Puerto Rico has NEVER been hit by a Cat 5 in recorded history.  As I write this post, Maria’s winds have kicked up to 175 MPH and the Barometric Pressure has fallen to 909 millibars.  This is lower pressure than Irma kicked out at her strongest.  The lower the pressure, the stronger the hurricane gets.  The only saving grace here is that Maria is not as big as Irma was, and the Eye she presents is not as wide covering so much territory.  It’s a “pinhole” eye, very small only maybe 10 miles in diameter at this point.  However, for the folks in the path of that eyewall, this is BAD NEWZ.  Like a spinning Figure Skater who pulls her arms in to speed up a spin, the smaller the Eye in one of these behemoths, the faster the wind speeds are.  They may yet still increase further before landfall on Puerto Rico, but they are already at CATASTROPHIC level.

As if this was not enough, today Mexico got hit by a massive Earthquake which demolished buildings and already the official Death Toll there is at 248 and steadily rising.  Multi-story concrete buildings collapsed inside Mexico Shity, and that wasn’t even the epicenter.  They just HAD an earthquake 2 weeks ago which killed 90 people.  In a gesture of Humanitarian aid, they offered to assist after Harvey hit Houston but then had to withdraw the offer after that one rolled in.  This latest one comes on PRECISELY the day in 1985 they got hit with a big one which killed in the 1000s..  They actually were staging Earthquake drills right before this one occured.  Whether this saved any lives, I don’t know but one hopes it did.  It’s still an amazing coincidence though and makes you wonder.

The pics so far coming out from Mexico are horrific in their destruction, although at least the whole city wasn’t obliterated like Barbuda was after Irma.  The scenes aren’t too much different though.

https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/barbuda.jpg

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Barbuda after Irma

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https://www.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2017/09/19/20/mexicoquake1909g.jpg

Mexico after the Quake

Of course, these are only THIS WEEK’S disaster Feature Stories.  Although the MSM has already left them behind, let’s not forget…

http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2017/08/29/harvey-floodwaters-put-houston-reservoirs-in-uncharted-territory/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-2/embed_image/image.img.jpg/612/344/1504028726465.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

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Houston after Harvey

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Florida after Irma

This is only the shit Mother Nature has been pitching for the last month.  We also have the “Rocket Man” Kim Long Dong over in North Korea pitching out the Missiles:

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North Korean Missiles

Less visually arresting but possible more DANGEROUS than all of the above was the Data Breach at Equifax.  The Identity information for 143M “customers” of the Credit system was compromised, which basically is about every adult who has a Social Security Number.  That information is now out there in the ether for any nefarious criminal to use to impersonate your identity and set up credit lines which will be charged to YOUR credit record.

https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1636224/massive-equifax-data-breach-hits-143-million-americans.jpg?w=1280&h=720&l=50&t=40

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/images/equifax-breach-laptop-lg.png

That’s not enough DOOM for you this month?  Catalonia in Spain wants to hold a Referendum to Secede from Spain, but Da Goobermint of Spain doesn’t want to even ALLOW the people to vote on this!  This is “Democracy” at the End of the Age of Oil and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization.  From Reuters:

September 19, 2017 / 11:57 PM / Updated 2 hours ago

Spanish police raid Catalan government to halt banned referendum

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/09/20/gettyimages-849994100_wide-995861366802f70acb5bc7cf63c972c35362386c-s900-c85.jpg

Did I happen to forget that Pennsylvania went BANKRUPT this month?  They can’t pay their bills.  That didn’t even happen in the Great Depression!  Filling the potholes is becoming a problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not to mention of course paying a few teacher salaries, sanitation worker salaries and of course those pesky PENSIONS they are on the hook for!

Do I want to review the problems with Da Federal Goobermint Budget and Deficit here at this point?  No, first off because we are already overloaded with DOOM, second because nobody even cares about that shit anymore and knows all they will do is hike the debt ceiling again, and third because there are no good Graphics to go with that story! lol.

I could of course go on and on with the many other facets of Collapse directly confronting us at the moment, but I think this is quite enough.  From Climate to Economics to Geopolitics, there are massive threats on every front, some of them being realized in real time as we speak, but about all on the edge of the precipice of a Tipping Point.  Something’s gotta give here.  BAU cannot stand up under this kind of pressure indefinitely.

After each and every disaster of the last month, POTUS Donalditry Trumpovetsky has PROMISED every disaster area under the FSoA Umbrella the FULL help of Da Federal Goobermint in Disaster Relief.  Let us do a short conservative estimate of the damages JUST to territories under the FSoA Umbrella here.

Houston:  Gotta be $100B there at least.  You’re not hearing jack shit from Houston these days, because that disaster was overrun in the MSM by the succeeding ones of Irma and Marie that followed it, but to be sure this place is no where near recovered. In the direct aftermath, Da Federal Goobermint “authorities” talked about a “years long” recovery project.  Does this sound like a Katrina “recovery” or what?

Florida:  That one dwarfs Houston, since it was spread out over such a large area.  Again being conservative, that is $200B

FSoA Virgin Islands:  This one is chump change compared to the first two, $20B would probably do an OK job for rebuilding them they are so tiny with such low resident populations.  They might actually get some decent money to rebuild, since they are such important Tourista destinations in the neighborhood.  Billionaires like Richard Branson have Private Islands down there and need services and working Airports for their Private Jets. (OK, I know his island is on the Brit side of the VI divide, but he probably uses the airport in St. Croix)

http://res.cloudinary.com/www-virgin-com/virgin-com-prod/sites/virgin.com/files/Articles/Richard%20Branson/necker/richard_necker_roof_full_width_1.jpg

Puerto Rico:  While I have been writing this article, Maria made her STRAFING RUN directly across the island as a high Cat 4, finishing off the trip by making a BULL’S EYE DIRECT HIT on San Juan.  Not a lot of information has yet come out of Puerto Rico, other than 100% of the power grid is down.  A few deaths have been reported so far, but a real death count will never be tallied up, or at least reported by the MSM.  No matter how bad the devastation is in Puerto Rico, the MSM will move on to the next disaster of the week arriving somewhere else in a World of Collapse.  I’m sure you can tack on another $230B to the $70B they currently owe and can’t repay for a nice round figure of $300B there.

So all together here in the last month, the FSoA has racked up over $600B in liabilities on the balance sheet.  A $Billlion$ here, a $Billion$ there, pretty soon you are talking about real money.  WTF is the $MONEY$ to pay for all this shit supposed to come from?  This is PENTAGON territory money!  The FSoA NEEDS this money to fund the War Machine!  They can magically find this money every year to fund the military or pay off disasters in select locations but they CAN’T find $45B in Chump Change to get Pennsylvania out of the hole?  What is wrong with this picture?

The fact is of course, it is NOT Da Goobermint who is issuing out the money here, it is the International Banking Cartel, through the proxy of the Federal Reserve Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of the TBTF Banks.  The money is credit to buy the resources and products of the Age of Oil, and they will only issue it out to those who they can still maybe get some return on for it.  So Houston will get new credit, because without Houston you have no oil industry at all!  Florida will get credit, because you can’t let a full state like that with retirees still paing taxes and tons of expensive real estate and golf courses go down the toilet either.  Puerto Rico on the other hand, you can probably let Twist in the Wind, like the Europeans have been letting Greece Twist in the Wind for close to the last decade.

Although most of the current models say that Maria will take a right hand turn after she does her STRAFING RUN along the north shore of the Dominican Republic over the next couple of days, there still remains a decent possibility she will track far enough west to do another STRAFING RUN along the East Coast.  That will cost a lot too, but if it targets lower Manhattan Island and Wall street, you can be sure all the credit necessary to rebuild Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase will flow out copiously to those neighborhoods.

Collapse is becoming positively BIBLICAL in scale these days, so how anyone can still be a denier absolutely boggles my mind.  It’s all around you in the Newz, and it’s all around you in the stores closing in your neighborhood, from Radio Shack to Sears.  This is FAST COLLAPSE.  It is ongoing as we speak.  “BEHOLD, the Mighty Hand of God!”

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28 Comments on "The Strafing Run of Mother Nature 4: 2017 Autumn of the Apocalypse"

  1. Darrell Cloud on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 6:49 am 

    A good Catholic buddy of mine called me up the other day as we were crawling out from under the rubble of Irma and he said, “Cloud are you aware that the great sign prophesied in Revelation 12: 1,2,3 will be fulfilled in the constellation Virgo on September 23d?” I told him that I was not, but looking at the event as it lines up, it appears to create a massive sign in the heavens.

    That alignment if it is the sign foretold in Revelation 12, is a sign of a coming period of great troubles. When I look at the common place perversion that is so rampant in our society it is evident to me that we are in the final phase of decadence that is the harbinger of collapse of all empires. Maybe Deagel.com is right. Maybe by 2025 our population will have been reduced to 54 million.

    Economic collapse happens at the speed of light. After waiting three hours in a gas line to fill some cans for his generator, my brother in law was turned away because all he had to pay with were credit cards. He never realized that when the power lines went down they took the phone lines with them and the credit card lines were shut down. Cash will work first after collapse. ATM machines will not work.

    Virtual money in your accounts will disappear along with your cryptos the moment the grid goes down. Guys if a wind storm can take down the grid for millions of people imagine what a war can do.

    Cash will work longer than people imagine because there is so little of it in circulation. Gold will have immediate value in the eyes of the more intelligent. It will take a while before the realization reaches the underclass. When it does you will be able to hire a day laborer for a silver dollar a day.

  2. Davy on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 7:46 am 

    “Deagel.com is right. Maybe by 2025 our population will have been reduced to 54 million.”

    Darrel, you may be partially right but do you really think the US is going to be destroyed and China is going to grow both with population and its economy? Don’t you think that is an agenda based view of the future? More likely we will all collapse together.

  3. Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 8:01 am 

    A good Catholic buddy of mine called me up the other day as we were crawling out from under the rubble of Irma and he said, “Cloud are you aware that the great sign prophesied in Revelation 12: 1,2,3 will be fulfilled in the constellation Virgo on September 23d?” I told him that I was not, but looking at the event as it lines up, it appears to create a massive sign in the heavens.

    So tomorrow we will all know? /facepalm

    Back to the real world. Hurricanes are so overrated:

    http://www.ramzpaul.com/2017/09/hurricanes-are-overrated.html

    This decade is going to be a record one, in a negative sense: the least eventful hurricane decade in recorded history.

    Galveston 1900: 9,000 deaths
    Irma 2017: 17 deaths

    The quality of hurricanes is deteriorating, like everything else. The resulting damage may have increased because we have so much more stuff we had not 100 years ago.

    But in general, they sure don’t make hurricanes like they used to.

  4. Davy on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 8:09 am 

    “FSoA”. This is a dead giveaway for an anti-American dump of blame and complain. This site and many of its members are anti-American extremists. Hence the endless anti-American articles and comments. Let’s talk about American critical events but if you do not include the rest of the human race in this discussion then you are a fool. I will fight each and every one of you as enemies of the truth if you try to tell me how bad I am and how you are the future and the solution. That is just plain bullshit.

    Look at what is going on in Asia and tell me that is the future. Pathetic. Look at Europe that is nothing but a less extreme form of the United States and tell me that is the future. You anti-Americans are mental children whining and complaining. The US is a failure but the world is a failure. The human race is a failure. Do you think aliens drop the US on this planet or do you think it maybe self-organized with the help of the rest of the world? YOU are a failure and I am also a failure. Let’s quit the finger pointing and get on with trying to man the lifeboats and the staff the hospices. They are going to occur in Europe, Asia, and the US. The worst of the death and destruction will be in the 3rd world. That is where the most people are and the most exposed to the worst of what is coming. The unfairness is horrible and the denial sickening. You are a part of if you are an extremist pointing fingers.

    Get a grip, singling out a nation and a people without global context is wrong if one cares about the truth. If one wants to be part of a new wisdom of control centered around being able to say “NO” and “LESS” it will have to begin with being able to look at ourselves and asking ourselves how we are contributing to this mess. It starts even before that by acknowledging we have a problems and further problems that are predicaments. In the end it will likely not matter. First because we have attitudes like the anti-Americans have of finger pointing and thinking that is a solution. Finally Nature bates last and we are just her baseball being thrown around. We have destroyed a planet so if you have the attitude you will live and they will die then you are deceiving yourselves. So many today live in such a world. We are all in this together. The US is the greatest danger to world peace for a variety of reasons but just barely at the top of the list and if the US falls from that list a new leader will take its place as just another Fascist state of doom. Fuck anti-Americans and the horse you road in on.

  5. Dredd on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 10:28 am 

    Well done post.

    The earthquakes are related to the hurricanes in ways that need to be analyzed (Is A New Age Of Pressure Upon Us? – 13).

  6. Darrell Cloud on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 11:19 am 

    Davy, I too have difficulty understanding how Asia would escape whatever cataclysm that came with the force significant enough to wipe 300 million Americans off the planet. There are however several possibilities, natural events like a Yellowstone eruption come to mind. The one possibility that I see as the cleanest take down would be the destruction of the American grid. With that, it is estimated that we would lose 90% of our population within a year. If the takedown was successfully blamed on the Norks, China and Russia would escape retaliation. In fact, they would probably lead the U.N. efforts at disaster relief ending with our being occupied by the blue helmeted army.

    Clog, I don’t know anything about Revelation 12. It has always been a mystery to me. I do find the current explanation popular in Christian circles to be interesting. The happenings in the constellation Virgo seem to match the scriptural template.
    I do know this; the disaster I typically prepare for is not the disaster that consumes my resources. With the flooding in Houston, I expected to see gas prices rise. So I went out and filled my vehicles and gas cans in anticipation of rising prices. Then Irma hit us and I emptied all my cans running three generators at mine and our parent’s houses.

    I do not know if the Zombie Apocalypse is going to hit us on the 23d or the 24th. I know that I am skittish already with the crap that has just hit us. This current interpretation of Revelation 12 has ratcheted my concerns a couple of notches higher. This morning I went out and refilled one of my 55 gallon drums with gasoline. I put enough stabile in it to keep it for 24 months. If nothing happens in two years, I will burn it in my vehicles and replace it with fresh gas.
    As for hurricanes being nothing burgers, that is easy to say in your armchair with the air conditioning running at full tilt. If on the other hand you have been without power for the last eleven days or if you woke up with the roof of your house crushed by a tree, then it is a little bit more serious.

  7. Davy on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 11:40 am 

    Darrel, are you saying that the same thing could not happen in Asia with the US spared? Deagel dot com is an agenda and not reality.

  8. Darrell Cloud on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 12:01 pm 

    Davy I don’t subscribe to Degael’s prediction. I think their numbers are weird considering the U.S. takes the biggest hit. It is however possible to get these numbers with a successful North Korean EMP strike. Everybody has got an agenda. If there are any true prophets, they must have extreme sensibilities that allow them to read the zingiest of the herd. I do belive that God gives us hints, but who am I? I’m just some old fool with an opinion.

  9. Davy on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 12:45 pm 

    “The Race For The “Holy Grail” Of Renewables”
    http://tinyurl.com/y7vmm85g

    “In February, AES Energy’s Escondido battery storage facility in California was hailed as the largest one to date, with a capacity of 30 MW/120 MWh. Now, Tesla is building a bigger one—100 MW/129 MWh—in Australia. On the face of it, it’s a race for the bigger battery storage system. But there’s much more to it than that. The race is on for increasingly reliable, grid-scale, quick-to-install energy storage solutions that will make the shift to all-renewable power much more realistic. In this, factors such as renewable-friendly regulation and integration of storage systems with renewable power generation capacity can tip the energy transformation scales.”

    “Energy storage, according to AES’ CEO Andres Gluski, is “the Holy Grail for renewables.” It is the key to the renewables kingdom of the future, eliminating the adverse effects of renewable power’s intermittency. Integrating this Holy Grail with the clean energy producers is the next step. Tesla and other battery makers have already made it. Yet staying with traditional utilities might not be a bad strategy either: it will be some time before renewables become the predominant energy source in the world.”

  10. Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 12:54 pm 

    clog, again with the total bullshit comparisons: Galveston 1900: 9,000 deaths
    Irma 2017: 17 deaths

    How many weather satellites were there in 1900? ZERO. How many airplanes? ZERO. How many thousands of things do we have today to save people from disasters that they did not?

    Stupid fucking denier tard.

  11. Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 12:59 pm 

    Florida’s Poop Nightmare Has Come True

    Hurricane Irma caused massive sewage overflows, highlighting the twin dangers of an aging infrastructure and climate change.

    “Pollution reports submitted to Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection show that, due to power outages and flooding caused by Irma, human waste has been spilling into streets, residences, and waterways across the entire state. At the time of this article’s publication, at least 113 “Public Notices of Pollution” had been submitted to the DEP. Combined, those discharge reports showed more than 28 million gallons of treated and untreated sewage released in 22 counties. The total amount is surely much more; at least 43 of those reports listed either an “unknown” or “ongoing” amount of waste released, and new reports continue to roll in—sometimes as many as a dozen per hour.”

    In other words, Irma was a literal shitstorm. But it’s no laughing matter. Sewage spills pose a major threat to public health, and they’re likely to become more common due to two increasingly connected crises facing America: an aging infrastructure and climate change.”

    https://newrepublic.com/article/144798/floridas-poop-nightmare-come-true

  12. Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 1:13 pm 

    After Harvey, What Will Happen to Houston’s Oil Industry?

    “Following the Money

    Will oil and gas companies so easily abandon decades worth of infrastructure investment?

    One consideration will be the ongoing cost of repairing and reinforcing energy facilities. In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita inflicted $10 billion worth of damage to energy infrastructure alone. And the incidence of these costly reconstructions are likely to increase.”

    https://www.wired.com/story/what-will-happen-to-the-gulf-coast-if-the-oil-industry-retreats/

  13. Revi on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 1:17 pm 

    600 billion is more than half of what we are supposed to run per year as a deficit under the Republican budget! In one week! I hope we don’t have too many more disasters in the next couple of weeks! We will have reached the limit. Maybe better lift the debt ceiling because we aren’t going to be able to limit spending any time soon!

  14. Boat on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 4:34 pm 

    Davy,

    “The human race is a failure. Do you think aliens drop the US on this planet or do you think it maybe self-organized with the help of the rest of the world”?

    Before we spin ourselves out of existence consider the most advanced of the 1st world may have the best chance of surviving climate change. Here are the words from ape himself.

    “How many weather satellites were there in 1900? ZERO. How many airplanes? ZERO. How many thousands of things do we have today to save people from disasters that they did not”?

    Who is to say smarter planning and better decisions along with tech will play a more decisive role in the battle for civilization.

  15. Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 4:50 pm 

    How many weather satellites were there in 1900? ZERO. How many airplanes? ZERO. How many thousands of things do we have today to save people from disasters that they did not?
    Stupid fucking denier tard.

    TalmudPunk, there is no reason to assume that without satellites and CNN significantly more than 20 people would have died in either Harvey or Irma. Certainly not 9000.

    Drama queen.

  16. Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 4:56 pm 

    Florida’s Poop Nightmare Has Come True

    Perhaps scuttling a few carriers, withdrawing from a few hundred military basis in Eurasia, where you have no business anyway and instead concentrate on repairing infrastructure or rather have some basic infrastructure in build in the first place.

    No?

    Thought so.

    Well then, enjoy the next hurricane season.

  17. Davy on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 5:47 pm 

    clog, quit acting like Ape is an American. He is Canadian. Quit playing your mixing games. Ape does not like the US in any way shape or form, OK, got it, nada, nicht. You want to use him as an excuse to be an anti-American slut.

  18. Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 5:50 pm 

    clogged-anus, there is every reason fuck wad. Disaster death tolls are down the world over compared to a hundred years ago and it’s mostly due to technology. Did you not see the videos of hundreds of thousands of cars fleeing Houston and Miami? That started a week before the shit hit and if they all only had a few hours warning like the good ole days the death toll would be more than 9000.

    Thank you technologly

    Remote-Sensing Streamflow Radar Provides Advance Warning for Flooding

    “During a flood, advance warning is the key to reducing damage and ensuring safety.”

    “The project is focused on three non-contact technologies to improve the observational and monitoring capabilities in rivers: Streamflow Radar, Scanning Lidar and Interferometric Stream Radar (ISRad). The streamflow radar portion of the project is currently the most robust, and 14 sites throughout the United States are already being installed with remote sensors that use Doppler radar to measure speed, depth, and flow rates in streams.”

    “This technology, used in combination with text alerts and notifications, has the potential to significantly impact water resource management practices and help reduce the damage and injury that occurs due to flooding.”

    https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/09/remote-sensing-streamflow-radar-provides-advance-warning-flooding

    old clog, they also have these new injury and life saving devices called seat-belts and helmets and airbags and all sorts of safety stuff grand Pa never had. I guess they don’t have any of that equipment on your dementia ward eh?

  19. makati1 on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 6:00 pm 

    Tech cannot over come human stupidity. If you build in a flood zone, you can expect floods. I hope the government ends the flood insurance program and the insurance companies refuse to/cannot pay up. If they want to live there, let them pay the FULL cost. Nuff said.

  20. makati1 on Fri, 22nd Sep 2017 6:29 pm 

    Only in Fascist Police State America:

    “Florida Residents Warned They’ll Be Ticketed For Hurricane-Damaged Homes”

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-22/florida-residents-warned-theyll-be-ticketed-hurricane-damaged-homes

    Only in greedy Amerika.

  21. Theedrich on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 3:59 am 

    Yes, the U.S. is 10x stronger than Russia.  BUT, in an age of nukes and cybernetics, all that could change in an instant.

    It should be noted that, in August-September 2017, a few hurricanes (Harvey, Irma and Maria) caused severe economic and structural damage to the U.S. mainland and its unjustly acquired territory of Puerto Rico.  Never mind the deadly earthquakes in Mexico.  Things can change quite rapidly and unexpectedly in major ways.

    Drunk with unprecedented power, the American Swamp in D.C. likes to see and portray everything in terms of economics and/or “morality,” depending on how the swamplings themselves benefit.  But neither of these aspects enables progress in human evolution and eugenics.  Yet the death march goes on.

    For example, the current frenzy of Ukrainian-agent-driven efforts to involve the U.S. more deeply in the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the valley or “basin” of the Don river (the “Don-bass” or Донба́сс) is based on the American cold-war thinking still pervading the minds of the senior, now aging, diplomats in Swampland.  To them, “sanctions” are the way to manipulate Vladimir Putin and subjugate his country.  The sooner these people retire (and the sooner war-mongering Cancer-brain McCain shuffles off his mortal coil), the better.  Russia is not an “open-society” democratic paradise in the way the mentally diseased oligarch, György Sörös, and his accomplices would like.  The U.S. does not need to create yet more global chaos à la Middle East in order to force the world to submit to it.  The blowback may be more than we can take.

    By the way, the Book of Revelation was written as revanchist propaganda against the Romans and the emperor (Caesar) Nero (among other interpretations, Neron-Qaisar > NRWN-QSR [in right-to-left Aramaic, רסק – נורן ] = “666” in gematria numerology) for the Jewish War (described by Flavius Josephus).  Despite all of the ignorami who think the jibberish in the Apocalypse predicts the future, it has nothing to do with anything today.

  22. DerHundistlos on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 5:12 am 

    Definition of PURE INSANITY Compliments of Donald Trump & Co:

    “We continue to take seriously the climate change—not the cause of it, but the things that we observe,” White House national security adviser Tom Bossert said earlier this month. In other words, we’ll prepare for the result (destruction), but not address the cause (carbon emissions).

  23. onlooker on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 9:42 am 

    Speaking of insanity, did you all hear the latest back and forth between Trump and Kim. Haha, acting like little boys, insulting each other. While we poor shmucks on Earth are held hostage by both these twits or turds haha.

  24. Boat on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 1:42 pm 

    onlooker,

    China gets in on the insanity act.

    China Moves To Limit Fuel, Textile Trade With North Korea

    “The new sanctions set a cap on crude and refined oil exports to North Korea at 8.5 million barrels per year, which represents a 30 percent reduction, according to U.S. officials. The sale of natural gas will be prohibited and refined petroleum sales will be capped at 2 million barrels annually. The Security Council resolution also bans all North Korea textile exports, worth an average of $760 million over the past three years.”

    which countries support sanctions on N Kora.

    Russia and China back UN sanctions against North Korea

    http://nypost.com/2017/09/12/russia-and-china-back-un-sanctions-against-north-korea/

    Seems a big chunk of the world is supporting N Korean sanctions

  25. onlooker on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 3:38 pm 

    Seems Boat, most of the world is acting sane. Just cheeto and the rocketman who still are putting the world under the gun with their macho bravado.

  26. Davy on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 3:55 pm 

    What planet are you on onlooker? Most of the world sane? Naw, ok, call Trump and Kim mad men but please don’t insult my intelligence by telling me the rest of the world is sane.

  27. onlooker on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 4:16 pm 

    Well, I meant in terms of trying to pressure Kim via economic sanctions. And by trying to diffuse the back and forth escalation of rhetoric between the two leaders. I do not think we cannot underestimate the personal animosity that is brewing among them and could especially on the part of Kim lead to an irrational move. Trump is provoking him if he disrespects him or his country. Really it is psychology 101.

  28. makati1 on Sat, 23rd Sep 2017 4:56 pm 

    Trumpet wants war to disteact the peasants form the collapsing US.

    Kim wants security from the insane US.

    There will be war only if the wig loses it and his generals are fools. I don’t see either happening.

    The US leads the world in insanity.

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